Way Back When: Gunter Behnisch

It's always sad when a good architect passes on, and this week Germany mourns the passing of a great one.

Gunter Behnisch, a former U-boat commander who became West Germany's top architect, died on Monday aged 88. His radical modern designs, including the Munich Olympic Stadium, marked a departure from the bombastic architecture of the Nazi era and shaped the face of the new German democracy.